1459 4 4
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The bartender kept looking at himself in the mirror behind the bar. “Everyone in Hollywood is an actor,” Doc said.
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145940
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One could count fifty moons hanging in the sky, in rows and columns of smaller skies.
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145973
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Shit, I guess I'm gonna hafta
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145900
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The pit of my stomach was bottoming out, this lurching sort-of feeling one experiences when one has coasted WELL OVER an abyss and has no way of finding one's bearings . . .
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145955
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This was not the bar that the artist usually frequented.
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145955
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In my 14 to 15 year old life in the late 50s I worked as a clean-up boy in the neighborhood butcher shop up on 5th. Ave.,
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145896
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They make you work
For your pizza in Italy
You have to slice it yourself
While wearing a gas mask
To ward off the cigarette smoke
From every neighboring table
While chasing away the
Mosquitos and the pigeons
The flies and the gypsy r
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145830
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145895
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I never meant to shipwreck you,
I didn't even know I was singing out loud.
I just stood on my rock a little too boldly,
and hummed a tune you wanted to hear.
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145863
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Some people are born that way, and some people do things to themselves
that keep them from talking. Like opening up a soda bottle with your mouth.
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145888
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Able to search through centuries, I click, scribble, skim,resurrect wet stone walls, the smell of burning peat.Bob's your uncle; Peggy's your aunt.Name your family, child. My brother said helloto Uncle Shirley and Aunt Greg. I was more…
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14581817
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The courts had scheduled the date long ago but the time, an hour always left to the warden, had yet to be decided.
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145843
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" History ...is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake."
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1458129
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...it was moving toward me from an oblique angle somewhere behind, steadily, relentlessly.
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145852
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The increasingly furrowed lines on his forehead made her stomach clench.
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145800
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The first apartment Troy and Lynn lived in was managed by an alcoholic former army officer, who lived in the complex with his wife and teenage daughter. He was a lush who didn't do much in the way of management. Lynn had barely noticed him before Troy moved in with her.…
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145811
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You’re listening to Smooth FM, taking you from the darkest hours to the start of a brand new day.
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145851
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A dead deer on the side of the road and the older boys not listening to her as they stab its eye with a stick.
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145877
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I remember the first & only time I parachuted it was 1964 my 16th birthday a rite of passage if you will from the old man an aerospace engineer & former WWII B24 bomber pilot I practice-jumped from oil barrels taught how to fall back then when the time came…
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145874
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The energies align to compel you,/
wave by field, charge by pulse, into/
an ever increasing circle of speed
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14581010
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I told her I didn't love her. She said love wasn't important; she wanted to marry a man she could respect.
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1458135
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The year begins well here
with much needed rain
and tee-shirt temperatures.
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145820
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Half past six; already, through the gloom Saltwater flourish sifts from wharfs that ply Their play like girls that haunt the midnight's womb, As far it seems as walks of Barbary. Within the bar, French waitresses and sots Play dice with time awhile and rub…
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145800
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To a tech-savvy millennial, the definition of progress is a hands-free blowjob, and the real number is not how many men you’ve been with but how many minutes you’ve made them wait.
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145766
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Above our bellies we are beautiful women with luscious breasts. Where there is skin, believe me, it is flawless, irresistible. Most of us have long hair, but there are some among us who keep their heads close cropped for aerodynamic…
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145721
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Despite the newly bright bricks and the working clock, Cassie couldn't help but take a deep breath before entering King Street Station. She had always tried to hold her breath when her family cut through it on the way to Mariners games but had never succeeded, not…
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145752
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Not to...Witness such sufferingWatch as a life fades awayReceive the callAttend this funeralBe surrounded by well meaning family and friendsStand by helplessly as my father sobs in his brother's armsNotice the pain settle in my brother's eyesSee my grandparents' tortured,…
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145700
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Two women are escorted to the desert, where they are shackled to the ground. Who are they, what have the done, and will they survive?
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145785
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Love me like a crutch
Love me when I'm strong
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145773
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the sun is quiet like the mountains,
the birds except for their wings
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